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Topic: Chantix Anyone (Read 131528 times)

Went to see my doctor today and will be starting Chantix tomorrow. Have just had enough of the rising prices of smokes lately. Also after smoking two packs a day I have decided it is time to kick the habit and say hello to clean lungs after 12 years of smoking.

Just going to be hard without my smokes tomorrow. Bought my last pack today and it cost me $3.85 ouch.

I was a smoker for over 20 years and I finally quit smoking cigarettes using Chantix.You don't have to stop smoking right away, keep your smoking as usual for the 1st week. You will notice that after a few days you won't like smoking anymore.Select a day you will quit, after your first week on Chantix try not to smoke at all. Don't feel bad if you slip and have a smoke. Chantix builds up in yours system and it targets the part of the brain that gets hooked to nicotine. After a while, you will not have the cravings and when you smoke it will taste really bad.You should stay on it for 12 weeks.I still get cravings everyday, I don't think that it will ever go away, but the cravings go away as fast as they start now.Chantix will help you get started, but in the long run it is up to you to stay smoke free.I had my last cigarette 3 months ago . I also know of 2 other success stories from people who quit using Chantix.

Good Luck, stay focused.....oh...btw...my insurance did cover Chantix. I also enrolled in their website and that was helpful.

Rich

(who only smokes medicine now)

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Nope she just wrote the prescription out and I went to the drug store and it only cost me $5.35 When I opened the box it had the card from the company and the website for support if I needed to go there.

You are lucky you can take Chantix. My doctor gave me the riot act saying it is relatively new and that it has side effects that could affect me including my hearing....WTF? And I am ready to quit. And I really haven't heard as many good responses to nicotine patches as I have for Chantix.

The idea is to do the tapering off until the chemicals (Chantix) builds in your system. So you can smoke but you soon won't be ........as it works.

Queen: Is your doctor a nutcase? I bet the chances are slim to none--else why is everyone getting on the bandwagon and quitting. Unless, of course, you have existing circumstances that warrant specific high risk factors.

Queen: Is your doctor a nutcase? I bet the chances are slim to none--else why is everyone getting on the bandwagon and quitting. Unless, of course, you have existing circumstances that warrant specific high risk factors.

Actually, he is a sweetie. Last appointment when I asked him about Chantix, he excused himself from the room for a moment and came back with paper stating the side effects of Chantix. One of the concerns he was worried about was my hearing loss saying something about it can affect hearing among other things. I have another appointment with him next week. I will try to run it past him again...I will do some research myself and will post here later.

Jerry, my friend.................I wish you well. If anyone had told me that it would be difficult to quit smoking, as difficult as going off heroin, I would have poo pooed them. "not me, I can quit in a minute." Ha Not so. Its way harder than I thought and has led me through some weird stuff with drugs to get off the things.Stick with it. If Chantrix does not work for you try another one. But I think you have to give the drug a few days to a week to build up in your system....not sure.

I'm glad to hear the success stories with the Chantix. I'm on the second month. I was smoke-free for about two weeks, them some stress came up. Since I don't drink or use drugs anymore, I went to the store and got a pack of smokes. I'm not giving up, just trying to stay sane. Anyway, let us know how it's going. I'm curious as to what your sucess rates will be, quitting the first week when taking Chantix.

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Day 3 No Smoke. No cravings. Then again it is only a 0.5 mg pill to take each morning, tomorrow I start two 0.5 one in the am and one in the pm. On Friday I start and take 1mg morining and evening, for three weeks.

I am now on my second week of taking the pills. I usually smoked two packs per day and now I am down to one per day. Everyone, I have talked to said not to fight against it and to smoke as little as possible and to work through the urge as much as possible. It does seem to be working slowly, as the cigarettes now taste funny and its not pleasant. I think that the urge will slowly go away also. It is hard to be in a bar and not have something for my hands to do, when you seem to smoke more in a bar than at other times.

The hard part and the incentive is the cost ...the two boxes of the pills cost me 250.00...Walgreens sells them by number of pills which is a rip off in my opinion...but maybe spending that much will give me a further incentive to quit since the pills are roughly the price of a pack of cigarettes per day.

Day four and no cravings no smokes for fours days now. Give me my damn cookie.

Just a cookie...keep going this way and it will be somewhere over 90 days without a cigarette by the time you arrive in SF. Start thinking about what are going to ask, I hope it is more than just a cookie You are doing great, keep up with the Chantix.

Rich(who had his last cigarette 98 days ago)

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Well I bought 2 cartons in duty free, so I'm calculating that those will last 10 days. I have the Chantix, it says 7 days while smoking, so I'm starting in 3 days. I'm exicted !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just a cookie...keep going this way and it will be somewhere over 90 days without a cigarette by the time you arrive in SF. Start thinking about what are going to ask, I hope it is more than just a cookie You are doing great, keep up with the Chantix.

I'm on my 12 week being a non smoker.I didn't feel any craving until after the 2nd week without smokes, but the craving went away really fast. I still get them once in a while and they they hit I just take a deep breath, take the dog for a walk or chew some gum.Keep it up buddy, you are doing great.

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Just got my 3rd script for Chantix yesterday. Can't say the results have been as dramatic. I have reduced my smoking to about a half of what it was--actually a third of what it was two years ago. I find the cravings are less intense and less frequent but I still have them--like right now, LOL. My inusrance covers most of the cost and my employer re-imburses me for the $25. co-pay, so I figure at least it is progress. The literature says it can take several months to take full effect right away, so I am sticking with it. Sort of like anti-depressants that work on neuro-receptor sites that take a while to kick in also.

3 weeks on Chantix and 2 weeks smoke free! I feel better and smell better. My current issues is that with Chantix and Atripla my dreams are again wicked vivid. Not scary just way off the wall and life like. Other than that I have really had no major issues.

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3 weeks on Chantix and 2 weeks smoke free! I feel better and smell better. My current issues is that with Chantix and Atripla my dreams are again wicked vivid. Not scary just way off the wall and life like. Other than that I have really had no major issues.

Lucky you! I never got wonderful technicolor dreams! Someone posted that you could induce the dreams if you had 2 cups of coffee 1/2 an hour before bedtime? Didn;'t work for me.

Added: I quit the first week of January - so with all the $, I saved I got new garage doors and for the first time - garage door openers! Gawd, my life is boring!

A close friend took Chantix, but it didn't work for him. He thought the nausea would be greater than it was when he smoked. He felt a bit uncomfortable, but not enough to not continue with the cigarette. Once he re-started, tablets in the bin.

I gave up on Sunday and am not taking anything. The cravings have subsided, but if anything or anyone aggravates me, I've got the shortest fuse at the moment. I know that it will subside, but it's a bit unpleasant.

I went to lunch in Soho last week and had to pay £6.45 for a packet of 20. I just hated the fact that I needed them so badly that I'd pay that.

And then there's the smoking ban coming in next month, which is sending every homosexual smoker into a tizz.

You are doing good.I did get nausea and constipation from Chantix, but I notice that if I took it with a full meal I didn' t get sick, unless I smoked. That was the thing with Chantix for me. Cigarettes tasted bad and made me nauseated.I only took it for 4 weeks and quit. I have not had a smoke since March 14. Today is my 3 month anniversary being a NON SMOKER>>>>>> Let us celebrate in September.

Rich

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Day 8 and still no smokes for me just wonder if anyone else will try this out. This little pill sure works. After 12 years of huffing and puffing it is good to finally smell the roses. Also I can taste things again, and have put on a few pounds here lately up to 183lbs.

Hmm .. day 2.. seems like i'm smoking 2 to 4 times less today.. and the one I'm having now doesn't taste too good.. i hope this continues to this trend !

Milker.

That is how it works, by the end of your first week you probably won't be able to take more than 1 or 2 puff before putting the cigarette out because it will make you sick it taste so bad.....just keep with the program!

Rich(who smoke his last cigarette on March 13, 2007)

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